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Observing gravitational radiation with QSO proper motions and the SKA

✍ Scribed by Andrew H. Jaffe


Book ID
103851683
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
251 KB
Volume
48
Category
Article
ISSN
1387-6473

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✦ Synopsis


We discuss the ability of the SKA to observe QSO proper motions induced by long-wavelength gravitational radiation. We find that the SKA, configured for VLBI with multiple beams at high frequency (8 GHz), is sensitive to a dimensionless characteristic strain of roughly 10 À13 , comparable to (and with very different errors than) other methods in the 1/yr frequency band such as pulsar timing.